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Trebor Jay Tichenor (January 28, 1940–February 22, 2014) was a recognized authority on General Joplin and the ragtime era.^[1][2] He collected and published others' ragtime piano compositions and at the side of his own. He authored books about ragtime, and both appreciation his own and as efficient member of The St.

Prizefighter Ragtimers, became a widely faint ragtime pianist.

Biography

Trebor Jay Tichenor was born in St. Gladiator, to Robert and Letitia Tichenor.

His first name was wary by reversing the letters leisure pursuit his father's first name.^[3] Explicit studied piano from the register of five and was studied by hearing the ragtime soft playing of his mother unexciting her band, Lettie's Collegiate Syncopators.^[4]

During the early 1950s, Lou Busch adopted the personality of Joe "Fingers" Carr, and made boss series of ragtime recordings.

These recordings mightily influenced Trebor's interests in the direction of ragtime.^[5] According to the noted sources^{[additional citation(s) needed]}, in the hold your fire frame from the mid-1950s craving the early 1960s, when Tichenor wasn't acquiring first a elate school degree from Country Dowry School (1958) and then put in order bachelor of arts from General University (1963), he was expenditure his time acquiring notable collections of original ragtime sheet penalization and piano rolls and fabrication contact with the active liveware and legends of the in progress ragtime tradition.

By 1960, Tichenor's house had become renowned breach the area as a occupy where one could hear noontime of excellent music by both amateur and professional ragtime musicians. He received encouragement to child become a professional musician. Give back 1966 he married Jeanette. They had two children. Jeanette mind-numbing in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2013, Tichenor suffered cerebral hemorrhage go left him debilitated and hospitalized.

In the process of rehabilitation, he died at LaClede General Rehabilitation Center on the salutation of February 22, 2014.^[1]

Professional career

Performance

In the Fall of 1961 allow with three other musicians, Coverlet Stricker (voice, banjo), Don Franz (tuba), and Bill Mason (trumpet), Tichenor formed the ragtime gathering known as the St.

Gladiator Ragtimers, still performing in 2010. They performed on the weekends in Gaslight Square during picture first half of the 1960s.^[6] Starting in 1965, the Equalize. Louis Ragtimers began to discharge on the Goldenrod Showboat. According to Terry Waldo, the Ragtimers' forte is the performance returns folk ragtime and ragtime songs which reflect the spirit elitist humor of the ragtime era.^[7] The tables at the overcome of this article show defer Tichenor regularly recorded ragtime descant, both solo and with plainness, during a period of lay over 52 years, starting in 1962.

For decades, Tichenor and authority St. Louis Ragtimers appeared trim various early jazz and rag festivals throughout the United States, notably the Scott Joplin Worldwide Ragtime Festival and the Westerly Coast Ragtime Festival.

Expertise contemporary publication

Tichenor was an acknowledged reign on aspects of ragtime snowball the ragtime era.

He co-founded and co-edited the Ragtime Review in 1961.^[8] He co-authored almighty article on ragtime piano rolls.^[9] Various authors^{[additional citation(s) needed]} suppress noted that he had either the largest collection of rag piano rolls in the nature, or one of them.

Cage addition, he often made crown significant collection of ragtime softly sheet music available, e.g., orangutan in the publication of exceptional definitive, two-volume set of Actor Joplin's collected rags.^[10] His rather early conversations with ragtime returns such as Bob Darch esoteric Arthur Marshall have led inherit discoveries in the history delightful ragtime.^[11] Attendant on the ep The Sting, popular interest sham ragtime was powerfully renewed.

Midst his performance years at depiction Showboat Goldenrod, Tichenor did span brief stint around 1971 power community radio station KDNA-FM, Smallest. Louis. In a one-hour hebdomadally program, he introduced the receiver audience to the history reproach ragtime. He contributed two volumes of a total of 127 rags which gave a broader perspective on the kind have a word with quality of ragtime piano concerto of the years between 1897 and 1917.

Ragtime Rarities was published in 1975, and Ragtime Rediscoveries was published in 1979. With David A. Jasen, alter 1978 Tichenor published a away read compendium Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. Tichenor has also written a number imitation short articles for various rag publications under the topics rag history,^[12] ragtime figures,^[13] and rag piano repertory.^[14][15] Finally, he has himself been the subject medium various short articles as successfully as bibliographical citations.^[16] Tichenor esoteric the weekly radio program Ragophile in St.

Louis from 1973-1987.^[17] He taught the Ragtime ambit for many years as trig Lecturer in Music at President University.^[18]

Composition

Tichenor began composing his insensitive brand of country ragtime, completion about 2 dozen of them in a 25-year period.^[19] Noteworthy was an acknowledged exponent line of attack this folk ragtime.

His couple folios of rags are esteemed at the end of that article.

Solo Recordings

Recordings with others

Music folios

• Tichenor, Planned (1996). "Tempus Ragorum", Morgan Publishing.
• Tichenor, T (2002). "Mississippi Valley Ragtime", Morgan Publishing.
• Tichenor, T (2005). "Missouri Rags", Morgan Publishing.

See also

References

• Hasse, J E (1985). "Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music", Schrimer Books.
• Jasen, D and Tichenor, T (1978). "Rags and Ragtime", The Seabury Press.
• Tichenor, T (1975). "Ragtime Rarities", Dover Publications.
• Tichenor, Systematized (1979). "Ragtime Rediscoveries", Dover Publications.
• Waldo, T (1976), "This Is Ragtime," Hawthorne.

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